Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday brushed off accusations from Hillary Clinton's upcoming memoir that he damaged her presidential campaign — and he advised his former rival to get with the times.

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"My response is that right now it's appropriate to look forward and not backward," Sanders told The Hill.

"I'm working overtime now to see we overturn Trump's decision on DACA, pass a $15 an hour minimum wage, and next week I'll be offering a Medicare-for-all single-payer system...Our job is to go forward."

Sanders said he wasn't interested in parsing blame for Clinton's loss and would "let the people decide" about her criticisms.

Early excerpts from Clinton's book "What Happened," a chronicle of her surprise defeat by Donald Trump, show her singling out Sanders as one of the major factors for her failure.

Clinton claims in the book that Sanders and his so-called "Bernie Bros" supporters smeared her with character attacks that held her back in the general election.

"(H)is attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump's 'Crooked Hillary' campaign," Clinton writes.

She accuses Sanders' supporters of "ugly" and "sexist" treatment. She also says Sanders, an independent who ran as a Democratic, showed little regard for how his campaign might damage the party.

Other excerpts from the book, which comes out next week, show Clinton blaming the Russian cyber attacks and former FBI James Comey as other causes for her loss.

Clinton also says her "traditional presidential campaign" missed the furious national mood that helped propel Trump to the White House.